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DAVID CRAMER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF AUBURN; et al., Defendants-Appellees.
MEMORANDUM*
David Cramer appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging federal and state law claims in connection with his arrest and prosecution for battery. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994). Whitaker v. Garcetti, 486 F.3d 572, 579 (9th Cir. 2007). We affirm.
The district court properly dismissed Cramer's claims alleging false arrest and imprisonment as Heck-barred because success on Cramer's claims would necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction, and Cramer failed to show that his conviction had been invalidated. See Heck, 512 U.S. at 486-87 (if “a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would necessarily imply the invalidity of his conviction or sentence ․ the complaint must be dismissed unless the plaintiff can demonstrate that the conviction or sentence has already been invalidated”); see also Cabrera v. City of Huntington Park, 159 F.3d 374, 380 (9th Cir. 1998) (holding that Heck barred false arrest and false imprisonment claims under § 1983 until conviction was invalidated).
AFFIRMED.
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Docket No: No. 16-15234
Decided: April 24, 2017
Court: United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
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